District 51 Migrant School, Palisade, Colorado USA place:2176 Palisade School (third location), Palisade, Colorado In 1956, the former Palisade School building housed the Palisade Migrant School, begun by John Martin. It enrolled the students of migrant laborers who lived in the labor camp next to the Colorado River. Dorothy Tindall was the sole teacher in its beginning stages. The program ran from July 15th through the start of the traditional school year. Students were provided with breakfast, lunch, and a snack each day. The school day ended at 3:30. There were 15 students in the first year and 30 by 1958. They coordinated with a local migrant ministry group to get the children into the program. The children would stay at the migrant ministry after school until their parents came home from the orchards and fields. The program provided some health care, dental clinics, and also arranged for some field trips in Grand Junction (swimming, going to the library, and so on). The last field trip of each summer was a trip to Wild Rose Park on Grand Mesa. The migrant school remained in Palisade until around 1962, when a hard freeze ruined fruit crops and caused a drop in migrant labor. The school was moved to Fruita and later to Riverside. yes yes